About the Maker

Mark Knapp, a tool and die maker with 25 years experience owns and operates Mark Knapp Custom Knives and The Cutting Edge along with his wife, Angel. The shop is a full service machine shop and custom tool making and tool sharpening shop. Mark’s background as a tool and die maker and several semesters enrolled in the University of Alaska’s Fine Arts Program provide Mark with the working knowledge to produce knives of superior quality and exceptional beauty.

Having worked seasonally as a big game guide, professional trapper and commercial fisherman for over half of his adult life, Mark is fortunate to have acquired an insight into the form and function of knives from working field knives to true works of art.

At Mark Knapp Custom Knives, you will not only find Mark’s handmade creations, but you can also choose from carvings and artwork by gifted craftsmen and women from around the state and choose from our selection of quality ulus made right in the store.

For the custom knife maker and carver, we have hundreds of natural materials, horns, antler, fossil ivory, exotic hardwoods and minerals from around the world.

It is our hope that you will come and visit with us and see some things that many visitors to Alaska will not experience.